The Life of Roger ShermanMcClurg, 1896 - 361 страници |
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Страница 129 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Страница 330 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted by or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present Confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged.
Страница 137 - Resolved therefore, that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Страница 276 - Yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin : and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast Written. And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Страница 217 - to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanks-giving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Страница 84 - ... we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are, bona Jide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce...
Страница 212 - Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives...
Страница 159 - Treaties with foreign nations. 4. regulating foreign commerce, and drawing revenue from it. These and perhaps a few lesser objects alone rendered a Confederation of the States necessary. All other matters civil and criminal would be much better in the hands of the States.
Страница 144 - The controversy must be endless whilst gentlemen differ in the grounds of their arguments, — those on one side considering the States as districts of people composing one political society, those on the other considering them as so many political societies.
Страница 151 - Mr. SHERMAN urged the equality of votes, not so much as a security for the small States, as for the State Governments, which could not be preserved unless they were represented, and had a negative in the General Government.